beshear
beshear verb: to shear or shave off; shear or shave all over.
Verb
beshear (third-person singular simple present beshears, present participle beshearing, simple past beshore or besheared, past participle beshorn or besheared)
- To shear or shave off; shear or shave all over.
- Eld trees arise: grim druids of the wood, Long since beshorn of their prime loveliness, Solemn they frown upon the solitude; […]1871, Hector A. Stuart, Ben Nebo: A Pilgrimage in the South Seas in Three Cantos, page 30
- Wiglaf mine lief, now that lieth the Worm
And sleepeth sore wounded, beshorn of his treasure; […]1898, William Morris, Tale of Beowulf, page 156
Proper noun capitalized: Beshear
Beshear (plural Beshears)
- A surname.
- On the invitation list: Govs. Andy Beshear of Kentucky, Tim Walz of Minnesota, J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Tony Evers of Wisconsin, Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Roy Cooper of North Carolina, Wes Moore of Maryland and Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico.2024 February 7, Edward-Isaac Dovere, “Harris set to host Democratic governors this weekend to discuss 2024 campaign”, in CNN
Forms of beshear
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | beshears |
| present participle | beshearing |
| past | beshore |
| past | besheared |
| past participle | beshorn |
| past participle | besheared |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Beshears |
Origin of beshear
From Middle English bischeren, from Old English besċieran, besċeran (“to shear, shave, cut hair, give the tonsure”), from Proto-West Germanic *biskeran (“to cut off”), equivalent to be- (“around, off, away”) + shear. Cognate with Saterland Frisian beskere, West Frisian beskeare, Dutch bescheren, German Low German bescheren, German bescheren.
Questions about beshear
- What does beshear mean?
- Beshear means to shear or shave off; shear or shave all over.
- What part of speech is beshear?
- Beshear can be a verb or a proper noun.
- What is the past tense of beshear?
- The past tense of beshear is beshore.
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